Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-17
SUNDAY. JULY IL, 1887
a Costly President.

A Costly President.
What would il cost the people OF the
United States if they should carry out
the policy of the bloody shirt shrlekers
who are trying to mako party capital
out of The flag order, and should elect
a President of the United States
pledged to sign the dependent-pension
bill? For after all, the clamor about
the order TO return the flags was and is
nothing but an organized attempt OF
the men engaged in Ito get their hands
into UNCLE SANS pocket?
We answer that the election of n
President of the United States and a
Congress committed to the policy of
passing the dependent-pension bill
would cost the tax payers a thousand
million of dollars-nay, thousands OF
millions of dollars.
This is not an eXtrayagant estimate.
On the contrary, it is too low. The
payments under such law would an
nuallv amount to more than a hundred
millions of dollars. More: A service
pension bill would certainly be the next
measure demanded by the men who
now clamor for the passage OF the de-
pendent pension bill The entire body
of soldiers who served in the Union
army during the war between the States
would be enrolled upon the pension
list. A hundred millions of dollars
year would not suffice to pay these lat
ter pensions.
The tax upon tobacco would never
be removed. The internal-revenue sys-
tenn would never be abolished. The
Treasury would never again be in any
other condition than one of chronic
bankruptcy The taX-eaters would out
number the taxpayers.
Wouldn't it be much better and much
cheaper to re-elect to the presidency
the man who vetoed the dependent-pen-
sion bill, and who has already i'll one
year saved TO the taxpayers one hun
bred millions of dollars If the dam
is to be saved, now is the time to save
it. If you desire the floOdgates of ex-
travagance, corruption, and waste to
be opened, vote for the party whose
candidates for national honOrs enroll
the mselves amongst the tax-eaters, and
are not ashamed nor afraid TO advocate
the giving away of thousands of mil
hons of tue peoples money earned by
the sweat of their brows, aud which
ought not to he extracted from the
pockets Of those who have hon estly
earned it.
AIe MALONE and bis followers will
ing to impoverish their own section ?
If not, they must oppose the depend
ent pension bill for under its opera
ton from thirty to fifty millions of
dollars would he transferred from the
rockets of the southern people to the
pockets of the northern. This drain
upon our section would necessarily re-
suit from the fact that nearly all OF the
pensioners live in the northern States.
This fact, however, is not likely to
have much influence upon the Repub-
hcan leaders. Why not? Because,
as it is necessary to say again
and again, the negroes of the
South rejoice over every loss which
the southern whites are called upon to
bear. These negroes constitute the
bulk of the Republican party in the
southern States, and would be pleased
rather than displeased to learn that the
white property-owners of the South
would, in consequence of the election
of a Republican President and Re
publican Congress, be compelled to
live century in condition of abso-
lutte poverty. AbsC nteeism of that sort
Z has been running the South for years
Let the Republican leaders OF Virgil
MIA decide whether they can afford to
impoyerish their own State.